by Ivan Groenewold | Feb 17, 2020 | MySQL, Open Source
by Vadim Tkachenko | Jun 15, 2006 | Benchmarks
I’m continuing my experiments with different OS and today I tested FreeBSD 6.0 on my box. (more details about box and benchmark see here https://www.percona.com/blog/2006/06/13/quick-look-at-ubuntu-606/). Initially I was very pessimistic about FreeBSD, as... by Peter Zaitsev | Apr 6, 2021 | Monitoring, Open Source, Percona Software
I try to use Open Source when a good solution exists, so for my home firewall, I’m using OPNSense – a very powerful FreeBSD-based firewall appliance with great features along with a powerful GUI.One of the plugins available with OPNSense is ... by Ibrar Ahmed | Jan 28, 2021 | Insight for DBAs, Insight for Developers, PostgreSQL
Some time ago, I required a specific version of PostgreSQL. After searching on all the repositories, I was unable to find that specific version. It seems that the PostgreSQL community removes the old package when a new minor version comes. For example, if you need the... by Dmitriy Kostiuk | Feb 19, 2018 | MySQL, Percona Events, Percona Software, Storage Engine
Percona announces the GA release of Percona Server for MySQL 5.7.21-20 on February 19, 2018. Download the latest version from the Percona web site or the Percona Software Repositories. You can also run Docker containers from the images in the Docker Hub... by Colin Charles | Feb 16, 2018 | Cloud, MariaDB, MongoDB, MySQL, Open Source, Percona Events, Percona Software, PostgreSQL, ProxySQL
Join Percona Chief Evangelist Colin Charles as he covers happenings, gives pointers and provides musings on the open source database community.In case you missed last week’s column, don’t forget to read the fairly lengthy FOSDEM MySQL & Friends DevRoom... by Dmitriy Kostiuk | Feb 13, 2018 | MySQL, Percona Events, Percona Software
Percona announces the release of Percona Server for MySQL 5.6.39-83.1 on February 13, 2018. Based on MySQL 5.6.39, including all the bug fixes in it, Percona Server for MySQL 5.6.39-83.1 is now the current stable release in the 5.6 series.Percona Server for... by Alex Poritskiy | Jan 25, 2018 | Insight for DBAs, MySQL, Open Source
In this blog post, we’ll provide an overview of the new MySQL 8.0 RESOURCE_GROUP feature.One great new feature introduced in MySQL 8.0 that – from my point of view – requires attention is RESOURCE_GROUP.Short disclaimer: I want to point out that... by Yves Trudeau | Nov 15, 2017 | Hardware and Storage, Insight for DBAs, MySQL
Since the purpose of a database system is to store data, there is close relationship with the filesystem. As MySQL consultants, we always look at the filesystems for performance tuning opportunities. The most common choices in term of filesystems are XFS and EXT4, on... by Alexander Rubin | Jul 6, 2016 | MySQL
by Roel Van de Paar | Jul 5, 2016 | MySQL
If you haven’t heard the news yet, MySQL 8.0 is apparently the next release of the world-famous database server.Obviously abandoning plans to name the next release 5.8, Percona Server’s upstream provider relabelled all 5.8-related bugs to 8.0 as... by Alexey Zhebel | Nov 9, 2015 | MySQL, Percona Events, Percona Software
Percona is pleased to announce the availability of Percona Toolkit 2.2.16, released on November 9, 2015. Percona Toolkit is a collection of advanced command-line tools to perform a variety of MySQL server and system tasks that are too difficult or... by Robert Barabas | Mar 6, 2015 | MySQL
Have you ever had a case where you needed to find a process which sent a HUP/KILL/TERM or other signal to your database? Let me rephrase. Did you ever have to find which process messed up your night? 😉 If so, you might want to read on. I’m going to tell... by Vadim Tkachenko | Jun 4, 2014 | Insight for Developers, MySQL, Percona Software, Webinars
We recently open-sourced our percona-agent and if you check out the source code, you’ll find that it is written in the Go programming language (aka Golang). For those not up to speed, the percona-agent is a real-time client-side agent for Percona Cloud... by Roman Vynar | Dec 18, 2013 | MySQL, Percona Events
Percona is glad to announce the release of Percona Monitoring Plugins 1.1. The components are designed to integrate seamlessly with widely deployed solutions such as Nagios, Cacti and Zabbix, and are delivered in the form of templates, plugins, and scripts.In this... by Hrvoje Matijakovic | Sep 18, 2013 | MySQL
Percona is glad to announce the release of Percona XtraDB Cluster 5.5.33-23.7.6 on September 18, 2013. Binaries are available from the downloads area or from our software repositories.New Features: Default State Snapshot Transfer method, defined in wsrep_sst_method... by Peter Zaitsev | Dec 19, 2012 | MySQL
There have been several reports (1,2,3) describing Percona’s stance regarding the MariaDB Foundation that are not totally accurate so I though it would be worth it to describe where we stand on this and related matters. First, let me say the creation of... by Fred Linhoss | Dec 13, 2010 | MySQL, Percona Software
Percona Server version 5.1.52-12.3 is now available for download.The main purpose of this release is to update the current Percona release candidate to the latest version of MySQL 5.1. The release also includes the HandlerSocket plugin, which provides NoSQL features... by Fred Linhoss | Dec 13, 2010 | MySQL, Percona Software
Percona XtraBackup 1.5-Beta is now available for download.This release adds additional functionality to Percona XtraBackup 1.4, the current general availability version of XtraBackup.This is a beta release. Functionality Added or Changed Support for MySQL... by Fred Linhoss | Oct 14, 2010 | MySQL, Percona Software
Dear Community,Percona Server version 5.1.50-rel12.1 RC is now available for download. Functionality Added or Changed Percona Server 5.1.50-rel12.1 is now based on MySQL 5.1.50. New Features Added: innodb_lru_dump_restore – Implemented automatic dumping of the... 
